03 Liszt cancels with
lattice work and arcs across the page. Date unknown.

04 In one musical score Mahler first frames then scores out a section
of the notation.

05
Verdi cancels a section of the libretto of Ernani .1843.

GOOD
PRACTICE

01 Linley
Sambourne, "The Comet's Farewell" from PUNCH
July 16th 1881, p.14 celebrating the disappearence of a comet seen in
1881 for 2 weeks.

02 Domenico
Gnoli, the Italian illustrator, designed a modern Bestiary for the HORIZON
magazine. Here is a close up of the hatched surface of a drawing
of a haddock in the bath.

03 Franklin Booth (1874 - 1948) and the American master of hatching, an
exhaustive discipline of pen and ink work, not afraid of large open spaces.
He worked (as here) for the Esty Organ Company and other musical companies.
His work can also be found in the Ladies Home Journal
. I've scanned it in large to emphasise the sheer weight of hatching on
the picture plane.

04. Linley
Sambourne winter evocation for Punch 1880

CROSS-HATCHING

left from
G.Montague Ellwood, The Art of Pen Drawing Batsford London
1927.

right from
The Romance of Discovery;Being an Account of the Earliest Navigators
and the Discovery of America, Written and Drawn and Done in Colour
by Hendrik Van Loon, Carlton House NY 1917

EXERCISES

the mezzotint
plate marked with the rocker at repeated and equal angles. from Carol
Wax, The Mezzotint, Abrams, New York, 1990, p.183 - see
the complete section on preparing a mezzotint ground.

FIGURE
AND GROUND

01 a drawing
by the American illustrator James Montgomery Flagg,

02 The hatching of the rocks is balanced by the bold striped material
of the Kodak Girl's dress. The Kodak Girl represented the firm's products
between the wars, and was the special achievement of Fred Pegram (1870
- 1937) who was famous for his capacity to control hatching across the
drawn image.

03 an interesting
example of broad painterly hatching on the left figure and spidery tartan
patterning on the right. Gilbert Wilkinson draws a little man new to racing,
"I found a jolly place where one can get tea and sandwiches reasonably.."
From The Passing Show June 1921 10 x 17cms.

04 from Ridgwell, Line and Laughter Methuen 1934 16 x
22cms; Our Popular Seaside Resorts; "Last night 3,000 people slept
on the Beach" "Far from the Madding Crowd" North Pole to
South Pole, " Don't you worry yourself, Old man, they haven't found
me yet" and the lame sub-caption for the dim and ill informed, "Arrangements
are being made for a Southern Polar Expedition"- " Punch August
6th 1898 p.50 17 x 22cms. Limp excuse for a drawing but a highly imaginative
personification with magnificent pen hatching.

TARTAN -
plate from a children's encyclopedia c1935

TONALITY
: STIPPLING

right -
Punch February 16th 1927 p.169; spoofs the new exciting
technology as evidenced in the press of the day ; 7 x 11cms. "Far
from the Madding Crowd" North Pole to South Pole, " Don't you
worry yourself, Old man, they haven't found me yet" and the lame
sub-caption for the dim and ill informed, "Arrangements are being
made for a Southern Polar Expedition" Punch August
6th 1898 p.50 17 x 22cms. Limp excuse for a drawing but a highly imaginative
personification with magnificent pen hatching.

left - J.T.Smith, etching of parts of London-wall and Bethlem Hospital
, 22 x30cms, and an astonishing ly controlled study in textures and differentiation.
This is a rare print - I can't remember it being reproduced, perhaps because
of the apparent drabness of the subject. There is no strong hierarchy
of objects or apparent narrative.It is nevertheless an astonishing image.